Living While Black

This is a companion page to my facebook page of the same name. I also developed it as a placeholder until I could launch Living While Blacq where this post has been duplicated. The name stems, obviously, from the term, Driving While Black — a term well-known to most African Americans.

Posts may cover #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackDollarsMatter, Black Economics, the “Black church,” how Blacks who profess Christianity are falling for the health and wealth gospel . . . No, we’re not innocent victims in many instances; and I’ll talk about that too.

There won’t be too much talk about Black entertainment unless it’s to question what’s being offered as “entertainment” to Black viewers. I’m talking about “Empire,” “Scandal,” movies where Black men are conned into dressing up like women. Yes, . . .

I wonder if I should have named this page, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”? I’ll try not to sound like one. But if I do, I’ll make sure my anger is not displaced.

Birth, marriage and death certificates, history books with maps, census records, naturalization forms, yellowed newspaper clippings, old family photographs, probate files, obituaries...to a genealogist it's all about the relatives.